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This interview, featured on the Prairie Schooner Blog, is the first in the Crooked Letter Interview Series hosted by Prairie Schooner’s Southern Correspondent, James Madison Redd. On August 15th 2012 he met with poet Derrick Harriell, Professor of Creative Writing and African-American Studies at the University of Mississippi. The following is a brief excerpt from their meeting in the John D. Williams Library’s Blues Archive, one week after Harriell’s move from Milwaukee to Oxford. They discussed music, religion, and performance, and their relation to poetry.

Crooked Letter Interview Series

Derrick Harriell
Author of the book of poetry, Cotton. Professor of blues poetry and African-American studies at Ole Miss

Michael Kardos
Author of The Three-Day Affair and One Last Good Time, winner of the 2012 Mississippi Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction

Catherine Pierce
Catherine Pierce is the author of two books of poetry, The Girls of Peculiar (Saturnalia 2012) and Famous Last Words (Saturnalia 2008), and of a chapbook, Animals of Habit (Kent State 2004).

T.R. Hummer
Born in Macon, is a Guggenheim Fellow and former head of the Georgia Review. His new work is Ephemeron

Sonny Brewer
Author of The Poet of Tolstoy Park, Brewer is also editor of Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit